Chapter Summaries

The new Sovereign fled after warning Chu Qing that the forbidden zone’s giants planned to attack the human continent and seize a supreme treasure. As the Black Tide began, Chu Qing prepared the alien alliance to face one hundred Fallen Emissary of Heaven legions and vowed to destroy them himself.

• The new Sovereign received orders from the giants to attack the continent, find their ancient enemy, and recover the forbidden zone’s supreme treasure, but they told him to die when he reported Chu Qing’s threat.
• The new Sovereign sent Chu Qing a letter explaining the giants’ plans, delivered resources, unleashed the Black Tide, and fled overnight.
• Chu Qing merged the Platinum Dragon into Madam Jin’s Great Sun Chariot and strengthened it with candle flame as it burned a path through the forbidden zone.
• After receiving the letter, Chu Qing told the Immortal to leave and warn the forbidden zone that he would burn it, then contacted the alien alliance about the more dangerous Black Tide.
• Chu Qing told the frightened alien alliance to prepare for war against one hundred Fallen Emissary of Heaven legions and declared that he would face them himself.

Chu Qing's announcement prompted humanity to prepare for another Black Tide as the forbidden zones mobilized Fallen Emissaries of Heaven. Heaven discovered that the Old Heavens had subverted its plans, and the chapter ended with the full-scale offensive imminent and powerful humans confronting or evading the advancing legions.

• The Otherfolk Alliance stayed in place after Chu Qing warned that the Black Tide would strike other continents, while Twisted Path martial artists celebrated the chance to fight forbidden zone creatures.
• A Mechanical Emperor built with Chu Qing's help spread its Mechanical Realm, transforming creatures and causing some forbidden zone evils to question their identities.
• At Chu Qing's orders, the empires and otherfolk built vast platinum-fire defenses along the borders, and experts fused with the Fire Pits and assembled into gun emplacements.
• Top-tier organizations realized the Black Tide targeted the whole human world after the Old Heavens took control of the Fallen Emissaries of Heaven.
• Heaven learned that its hidden measures had been cleared despite Sky Eye's repeated reports, but decided to follow its normal process and trust the continents to withstand the attack.
• Forbidden zone giants moved their plans forward after one corner of Qingzhou launched the Black Tide, while ancient beings awoke and powerful humans encountered the advancing legions.

Chu Qing organized the defense against the approaching Black Tide, sending allies and war forces to the front while preparing to hunt the forbidden zone’s titans. He joined the battle with Nangong Xiao and Cui Moyang, slaughtering enemies as he searched for the Fallen Emissary of Heaven legions.

• Madam Jin, the Princess Consort, Consort Mei Zuo Yan, and others headed to aid the woman in red, while Madam Shi stayed to patrol the front lines and kill dangerous experts.
• Chu Qing ordered Tang Wuming and Sima Zhao to create controllable breeding Gods and Devils, sent Mingyue and the maids with Giant Beasts to the front, and told Zhao Hongxiu to command the emperors to direct worship and curses.
• Chu Qing asked Nangong Xiao and Cui Moyang to guard his flanks and rear as he moved upstream to destroy the Fallen Emissary of Heaven legions and slay the titans.
• Nangong Xiao and Cui Moyang agreed to accompany Chu Qing, and the three charged toward the front lines.
• Red clouds swept across the battlefield, countless troops and horses charged into the Black Tide, and Chu Qing walked through the slaughter while searching for the Fallen Emissary of Heaven legions.

Chu Qing led a vast army deep into the Forbidden Zone while Qingzhou Continent mobilized its people and resources for a prolonged war. He encountered the ten-million-strong Emissary of Heaven legion and began tearing through its ranks.

• Chu Qing advanced into the Forbidden Zone as Mechanical Emperors, Giant Beasts, and the White Gold Fire Pit followed his army.
• Zhao Hongxiu and the Empress organized empires to train new martial artists, while Stone Ridge Mountain expanded secret medicine production to supply the front lines.
• Mingyue and the others declared their goal was to cripple one corner of the Forbidden Zone, and Qingzhou Continent put its population and resources on a war footing.
• Madam Shi spread thousands of Innate God and Demon avatars across the front lines and hunted Immortals and powerful enemies with her allies.
• Chu Qing found the ten million Emissaries of Heaven advancing behind the Black Tide, and both sides charged without speaking.
• Chu Qing transformed and destroyed Emissaries of Heaven by the thousands as Nangong and Cui Moyang guarded his flanks.

Chu Qing crushed wave after wave of Fallen Angel Envoy legions while a forbidden zone giant ordered forces into Qingzhou to recover a stolen treasure. The giant summoned the feared Number Eighteen, who was transported to Qingzhou to confront the threat.

• Chu Qing destroyed the Fallen Angel Envoy legions as Cui Moyang and Nangong absorbed the wounded and his army advanced.
• A forbidden zone giant learned that the Black Tide order and the hundred legions sent into Qingzhou had failed to stop the new ruler.
• The giant explained that the forces were searching for an important treasure stolen from the forbidden zone and ordered more Black Tides sent into Qingzhou.
• After hearing that Forbidden Qing could destroy legions and War Platforms, the giant dismissed the threat and called for Number Eighteen.
• Those ordered to contact Number Eighteen passed the task down to an unintelligent Evil Creature, which delivered a stone tablet to him.
• Number Eighteen emerged from seclusion and used a ritual track to teleport to a corner of Qingzhou.

After the Sovereign fled and Chu Qing destroyed the Emissary of Heaven legions, Number Eighteen arrived to take temporary command but spent days feasting instead of acting. When Chu Qing advanced toward their position, Number Eighteen trusted that reinforcements and hundreds of legions would stop him.

• The restricted-zone immortals celebrated the Sovereign’s flight and the Emissary of Heaven legions’ losses rather than join the fighting.
• Number Eighteen arrived, forced the immortals to serve one of their own as his feast, and announced he would be temporary Sovereign.
• Number Eighteen dismissed the Emissary of Heaven legions as trash and continued feasting as Chu Qing destroyed the last one.
• When news came that Chu Qing was advancing, Number Eighteen said Black Tide reinforcements from other corners would arrive first.
• The immortals celebrated reports that several hundred Emissary of Heaven legions were surrounding Chu Qing, while Number Eighteen laughed that Chu Qing could not defeat them all.

Number Eighteen gathered thousands of Sovereigns around Qingzhou while Black Tides failed to break its advancing defenses. He used a secret inheritance to suppress the Sovereigns and grow stronger, then prepared to confront Chu Qing.

• Number Eighteen welcomed the arriving Allied Army and learned the giant masters had sent forces from across the sector to destroy Qingzhou.
• As Sovereigns arrived over the next three years, Qingzhou continued advancing against the Black Tides, and Number Eighteen worried that Chu Qing was difficult to defeat.
• Number Eighteen urged the newly arrived Sovereigns to enter seclusion, then had his followers capture them when they tried to leave.
• Number Eighteen used the captured Sovereigns to cultivate his secret inheritance, becoming several times stronger and planning to kill Chu Qing and eventually the giant masters.
• Number Eighteen rose to face Chu Qing, convinced that Qingzhou had weakened and declaring that it was time to end the farce.

Number Eighteen received an Imperial Decree to lead the Sovereigns and use the Myriad Kill Diagram against Chu Qing. As Chu Qing held back the Black Tide, Number Eighteen’s force arrived above the battlefield and asked where he was.

• Number Eighteen learned that the Imperial Decree ordered him to lead ten thousand Sovereigns to kill Chu Qing and search for the supreme treasure.
• Number Eighteen told the arriving Sovereigns that the more than three thousand Sovereigns who had come before them were fighting Chu Qing, concealing that they had merged with him.
• The Sovereigns decided to march to the front line with the Myriad Kill Diagram rather than request reinforcements.
• Chu Qing and his allies struggled to hold back the mountain-like Black Tide, while Chu Qing continued breaking its waves with punches and sustaining the Platinum Dragon with candle flames.
• The Black Tide stopped and swelled into eighteen towering mountains, and Number Eighteen appeared with the Sovereigns atop them and asked, “Where is Chu Qing?”

Number Eighteen and the forbidden-zone rulers confronted Chu Qing, but the Myriad Kill Formation let the rulers revive even after his effortless attacks. As hundreds of them burned their strength to unleash sure-kill strikes, Chu Qing kept destroying one ruler, leaving the battle unresolved.

• Number Eighteen shouted for Chu Qing until the Black Tide creatures and nearby rulers suffered from the power of his name.
• Chu Qing discussed with Madam Shi selecting gifted Qingzhou fighters who could hear his name as a trump card against the Black Tide.
• The rulers activated the Myriad Kill Diagram, formed an army formation, and charged Chu Qing under the Twilight Overlord's decree.
• Chu Qing killed a ruler with a tap of his toe, then repeatedly destroyed him whenever the formation revived him.
• Number Eighteen urged the rulers to use their formation's endless revivals, and they unleashed sure-kill strikes by burning their flesh, realms, and inheritances.
• Chu Qing continued attacking the ruler as the sure-kill strikes curved toward him and more rulers burned themselves to attack.

Chu Qing escaped the incomplete Myriad Kill Formation and dragged Number Eighteen inside, where he began destroying its fatal strikes. Number Eighteen realized the strikes were vanishing without being reborn and demanded to know what Chu Qing had done.

• More than six thousand fatal strikes trapped Chu Qing in the incomplete Myriad Kill Formation, and he discovered they were formed from the abilities of dead Sovereigns.
• Chu Qing escaped the formation and appeared behind Number Eighteen, then dragged him inside.
• Number Eighteen fought the fatal strikes and advanced toward Chu Qing, confident that he could kill him.
• Chu Qing attacked the fatal strikes while ignoring Number Eighteen, and the number of strikes steadily dwindled without any being reborn.
• Number Eighteen noticed the formation losing fatal strikes and shouted at Chu Qing to explain what he had done.

Chu Qing battled Number Eighteen while destroying the Myriad Kill Diagram’s killing moves, then studied and entered Number Eighteen’s fierce tiger technique. Number Eighteen unleashed more than three thousand Sovereigns into the tiger, leaving Chu Qing fighting their transformed selves inside its body.

• Chu Qing shattered killing moves and harvested their fragments, which annihilated Immortal Ones and forced the forbidden zone’s inhabitants to retreat.
• Number Eighteen pursued Chu Qing and attacked him with Sovereigns, but Chu Qing kept destroying the killing moves while they clashed.
• Number Eighteen combined four killing moves into a gigantic transparent fierce tiger, and Chu Qing entered it to study its structure.
• Chu Qing kicked Number Eighteen into a deep pit, enraging him into releasing more than three thousand Sovereigns.
• The Sovereigns transformed into Number Eighteens inside the fierce tiger, where they fought Chu Qing as the tiger thrashed and tried to expel them.

Chu Qing defeated Number Eighteen after their brutal clash, exploiting a moment when Number Eighteen lost control of the Fierce Tiger Gang. Number Eighteen surrendered and begged for mercy, but Chu Qing began peeling off his skullcap.

• Number Eighteen absorbed his many duplicates, fused with the Fierce Tiger Gang, and challenged Chu Qing in a monstrous form.
• Chu Qing transformed and overwhelmed Number Eighteen in a direct clash of heads, arms, and wings.
• Chu Qing tore pieces from the Fierce Tiger Gang and used them as weapons until Number Eighteen could no longer disperse the tiger hide.
• Number Eighteen became distracted when he realized he had lost control of the hide, and Chu Qing seized the opening to batter him and tear off his head with his spine.
• Number Eighteen begged Chu Qing to spare him and offered to become a spy, but Chu Qing started peeling off his skullcap.

Chu Qing survived Number Eighteen’s secret killing move, killed him, and declared that the forbidden zone would have to revere him as a taboo. As he resumed his assault across the Black Tide, an immense face appeared in the sky to confront him.

• Chu Qing searched Number Eighteen’s memories for the Fierce Tiger Gang secret art, and Number Eighteen unleashed a killing move powered by burning thousands of Sovereigns.
• Chu Qing survived the multicolored attack unharmed, then destroyed Number Eighteen’s consciousness and declared that he could not revive in the forbidden zone.
• Chu Qing resumed slaughtering forbidden-zone creatures and collapsing Black Tide mountain ranges, demanding that the forbidden zone and its giants revere him as a taboo.
• A vast face formed in the sky, called Chu Qing arrogant, and Chu Qing began to answer it.

Chu Qing’s title changed after he created The Showdown Between Forbidden and Forbidden Zone, and the painting became a powerful strange treasure that he ultimately chose to release. He then rejected the Twilight Overlord’s offer and vowed to destroy the Forbidden Zone for its attack on Qingzhou.

• Chu Qing’s title changed to Forbidden on the Emperor's Seat, Terror Reflected Beneath the Abyss—Emperor Liuli—Time Demon—Chu Qing, and its abilities strengthened.
• When Chu Qing announced his name, unacknowledged Forbidden Zone creatures across hundreds of thousands of miles exploded, and their blood formed The Showdown Between Forbidden and Forbidden Zone.
• The painting swallowed the Myriad Kill Diagram, struck the lightning face, and revealed that it could summon 1.2 billion Evil Creatures and powerful copies of Chu Qing and the face.
• Chu Qing sensed that the painting did not belong to the present, used an Inch of Time on it, and let it fly away rather than rely on it as an external source of power.
• The Twilight Overlord offered to stop the Forbidden Zone from attacking Qingzhou in exchange for the painting, but Chu Qing refused and vowed to invade and destroy the Forbidden Zone.

Chu Qing continued destroying the Black Tide while the Twilight Overlord watched and warned him that he would regret his actions. At Square Inch Gathering, Luo Tian revealed that the Forbidden Zone planned to destroy every human continent and that some leaders were already bargaining for a place inside it.

• Chu Qing dismissed the Twilight Overlord’s threat and repeatedly destroyed the Black Tide mountain ranges while the Overlord watched.
• At Square Inch Gathering, Chu Qing told Bi Luo and the others that only an Overlord-level Forbidden Zone creature could likely threaten him, and Bi Luo offered to bring help if he needed it.
• The group discussed the spreading Black Tide, the threat posed by Emissary of Heaven legions, and the possibility that human organizations would collude with the Forbidden Zone.
• Heavenly Court warned that some human organizations might let the Forbidden Zone swallow their continents, and Chu Qing said survivors could come to Qingzhou.
• Luo Tian reported that the Forbidden Zone intended to destroy all human continents and that some had already agreed to lower their defenses in exchange for a place in the Forbidden Zone.

After learning that some human continents planned to surrender, Chu Qing rejected the Twilight Overlord’s threat to destroy a neighboring continent and began slaughtering his way through the Black Tide. A year later, Qingzhou’s advance remained steady, while the Twilight Overlord discovered that the restricted zone was spawning far fewer living beings than before.

• Luo Tian explained that some human factions wanted to surrender because they feared the Black Tide and hoped to secure a place in the restricted zone.
• The Twilight Overlord threatened to drown the continent next to Qingzhou and blame its destruction on Chu Qing.
• Chu Qing answered that he would retaliate by destroying continents himself, then charged across the Black Tide and slaughtered restricted-zone creatures without using the rare treasure’s Sovereign beings.
• Chu Qing continued killing as Qingzhou advanced through the restricted zone; the Black Tide collapsed within minutes, and his slaughter continued unchanged for a year.
• The Twilight Overlord learned from Authority that the restricted zone was spawning far fewer living beings, with the missing number close to the number Chu Qing had killed.

Chu Qing continued slaughtering the forbidden zone for years while cultivating thousands of realms, and the Black Tide spread from rural continents to the headquarters of super organizations. Inspired by Chu Qing, Yellow Heaven Dao and other organizations deployed thousands of War Fortresses into the forbidden zone, while its Overlords debated how long Chu Qing could keep killing.

• The Twilight Overlord decided not to confront Chu Qing after finding no one in his ranks who could stop him.
• Chu Qing kept killing and cultivating, while Nangong and the Twisted Martial Artists also grew stronger through battle.
• The Black Tide spread from rural continents to mid-grade continents, swallowing some and transforming their people into evil creatures.
• The Black Tide reached the high-grade continents, and the Yellow Heaven Dao Daoist Nun sent three hundred and sixty-five War Fortresses into battle and charged them into the forbidden zone.
• After the Daoist Nun mocked their hesitation, the other top-tier organizations deployed thousands of War Fortresses into the forbidden zone.
• The Overlords worried over Chu Qing's endurance and predicted his century of slaughter would accumulate enough karma to drag him into the Great Terror.

Phoenix Emperor and her mother relived a horrific future-era war in their dreams while the Alliance prepared to breach Bi Luo Mountain. Phoenix Emperor warned the generals that the self-sealed Bi Luo was tied to a terrifying Great Unification figure, but they dismissed her and continued the standoff.

• Phoenix Emperor and her mother dreamed of more than a century of brutal frontline warfare, where they witnessed Chu Qing fight and saw the forbidden zone's Black Tide grow stronger.
• After waking, Phoenix Emperor's Mother said many warriors and even their possessed body had been excited by the slaughter, but an alarm interrupted their discussion.
• Phoenix Emperor and her mother went to the deck and found Alliance forces aiming the Starry Sky Battleship's weapons at Bi Luo Mountain.
• Phoenix Emperor confronted the generals, arguing that Bi Luo was a follower of a powerful Great Unification figure and that disturbing her self-sealing could endanger the Alliance.
• The generals rejected Phoenix Emperor's warning and insisted the excavation had Alliance approval, while the woman on Bi Luo Mountain learned Phoenix Emperor had encountered a Great Figure across time and space.

Wang Feifan invoked Alliance law to seize Bi Luo Mountain for the excavation of the sealed Bi Luo, but High Priest Bi Luo resisted and stripped him of his bloodline and physique. Shen Wuming then arrived and used the law to overwhelm the defenders, until an old woman emerged in Jade Light and shattered the chains binding the High Priest.

• Wang Feifan invoked Alliance law and accused Bi Luo Mountain of ten crimes, but High Priest Bi Luo shattered the first shackles.
• High Priest Bi Luo used her authority to turn the law chains against Wang Feifan, stripping away his bloodline and physique before three Imperial Clan generals forced the law to withdraw.
• Wang Feifan and the generals insisted they had Alliance authorization to excavate the sealed Bi Luo, but High Priest Bi Luo rejected their claim.
• Shen Wuming arrived, declared that he would take Bi Luo for the Shen Family, and used law chains to hurl the Bi Luo Sect members down the mountain and bind High Priest Bi Luo.
• An old woman emerged from Jade Light and shattered the chains restraining High Priest Bi Luo.

On Bi Luo Mountain, Phoenix Emperor and her protectors confronted Shen Wuming as he tried to dig up the ancient woman buried there. The Di Kun Family threatened an all-out killing strike over Phoenix Emperor, but Shen Wuming ordered the Starry Sky Battleship to bomb the mountain anyway.

• The old lady arrived on Bi Luo Mountain, reassured the Bi Luo High Priest, and challenged Shen Wuming over his plan to excavate the ancient woman.
• Shen Wuming revealed that the Alliance and the Shen Family wanted the woman's bloodline and physique, and he threatened Phoenix Emperor when she condemned him.
• Phoenix Emperor's Mother withdrew the law chains Shen Wuming had summoned, then an old woman's phantom warned that harming Phoenix Emperor would bring the Di Kun Family's killing strike.
• Phoenix Emperor declared that she would defend Bi Luo, while the Bi Luo High Priest laughed at her claim that she knew Bi Luo.
• Shen Wuming ordered the Starry Sky Battleship to blast a hole beneath Bi Luo Mountain and said he would restrain Phoenix Emperor.